Mr. Ram Jethmalani is the highest paid lawyer in the country. As a politician he has held various posts such as the Union law minister and Chairman of Bar associations. A maverick lawyer, he is known to take up cases for the high profile people. Currently he is a member of parliament in Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan.

Political Career

He was elected a member of parliament in 6th and 7th Lok Sabha on a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ticket from Mumbai. He has served as Law Minister of India and also as Minister of Urban Development during the Prime Ministership of Atal Bihari Vajpayee against whom he later on contested the general elections in 2004 from Lucknow. However, in 2010 he came back to BJP and was elected to Rajya Sabha on its ticket from Rajasthan.

Legal Career

He has a number of high-profile defence cases to his credit as a lawyer. He has defended following people:-

L.K Advani in Hawala Scam;

Former IPL Chairman and commissioner Lalit Modi;

Defence of Rajiv Gandhi's killers in Madras High Court in year 2011;

Defence of Indira Gandhi's killers;

Harshad Mehta's defence in stock market scam;

Ketan Parekh's defence in stock market scam;

Underworld don Haji Mastan;

Defended death sentence of Afzal Guru;

Amit Shah's (Gujarat's former Minister of State for Home) defence in Sohrabuddin fake encounter case;